Location: BALTIMORE, Maryland

In June of 1944, J. Saunders Redding published an opinion piece on the G. I. Bill of Rights in a column he wrote for The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper. African Americans who served in the segregated Armed Forces returned home from WWII to an equally segregated American society. Redding worried whether “colored men and woman would take advantage of its [G. I. Bill] provisions" because...